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UNINA9910958005503321 |
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Autore |
Boholm Åsa |
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Titolo |
Facility siting : risk, power and identity in land use planning / / by Asa Boholm and Ragnar Lofstedt |
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London ; ; Sterling, VA, : Earthscan, 2004 |
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1-136-56595-7 |
1-136-56596-5 |
1-280-47512-9 |
9786610475124 |
1-84977-130-8 |
600-00-0063-4 |
1-4175-8308-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (255 p.) |
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Collana |
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Risk, society, and policy series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Land use - Planning |
Economics |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Cover; Facility Siting:Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; List of Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Overview; The role of risk issues in facility siting; The 'how' of facility siting; Contaminated communities and environmental stigma; The role of landscape, place and identity; This volume; Chapter 1. The Importance of Context in Siting Controversies: The Case of High-Level Nuclear Waste Disposal in the Us; Introduction; The US case: What Went Wrong? |
Explaining gridlock: The public, organizations and institutionsReduction of uncertainty and vulnerability: The trust conundrim; Legitimation and the review function; Conclusion; Chapter 2. Where Does It Go?Stiting Methods and social representations of radioactive waste management in France; Introduction; History of high-level radioactive waste facility siting in France; Cleavages in radioactive waste management policy and implementation; Social representations of radioactive waste; Discussion; Acknowledgements; Chapter 3. |
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Institutional Thinking in Siting Conflicts; Introduction |
Theoretical perspective Mercury disposal as a national risk discourse; Conflict over a potential siting; Incompatible core ideas: Safety versus risk; Classifications: Self-Definition and definition of the opposing party; Conclusion; Chapter 4. Siting Conflicts in Renewable Energy Projects: A bogas case study; Introduction; Bogas in Lund: An introduction to the case study; Perceptions of the developer and the planning process; Lessons to be learned from the case; Conclusion; Chapter 5. The Smell of Money: Minor risk and olfactory sensibilities (Anatomy of a protest); Introduction; Settings |
The meetingsUnspoken elements; What happened?; Conclusion; Chapter 6. Living with Technological Risk: Industrial encroachment on sense of place; Introduction; Sense of place, values and 'community of experience'; Stigma, risk and place; Chemicals in the community; Industrial encroachment and sense of place; Sense of place and stigmatization; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Chapter 7. Visualizing Place and Belonging: Landscape redefined in a Swedish farming community; Building the Hallandsás train tunnel; Photographing the local environment; Images of the local environment |
Heritage, present and futureDiscussion; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Chapter 8. Shifting Risks: Impacts on American Indian Sacred landscapes; Introduction; Risk Society as social theory; The Hoover Dam case; Greater good; Contesting risks; Timescapes; Managing risks; Trust; Ontological security; Conclusion; Chapter 9. The Intervention of a Minority: A case from the Aragónese Pyrenees; Introduction; Water policy in Spain and Aragón; Recent events; Equity as an argument; A controversial 'general interest'; Globalizing a local controversy; Conclusion |
Chapter 10. Schismogenesis in a Swedish Case of Railway Planning |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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From dams to landfill sites, and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicts involving industry, planners, authorities, NGOs and citizens. This penetrating volume examines risk, power and identity in contests over the siting of infrastructure and industrial facilities. Going beyond nimby-ism, experts in a variety of fields bring a multiperspective analysis from science, law and media to case studies from the UK, USA and Europe, and expose the political and cultural dimensions of siting conflicts. In the process they show how pl |
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